Ubuntu Global Jam event in Montreal

With the Ubuntu Global Jam fast approaching, the Ubuntu-Quebec community is once again organizing an event to get together, find, track down and fix bugs, in Montreal (and inviting anyone interested in helping out to join us). The event will take place Saturday and Sunday, September 3 & 4, 2011, starting around 9 am.

Many thanks to komputes for doing the work of organizing the event and getting everything ready.

This time, our local Global Jam event will be hosted at the Canonical offices here in Montreal! Huge thanks to management for allowing us to use the office.

So if you're in or around Montreal, come join the local Ubuntu-Qc members and let's make Oneiric really rock! Just so we know what to expect, please make sure you register your presence on the LoCo directory event page. You can also watch our wiki page for more information.



Canonical Canada Limited
4200, boulevard Saint-Laurent
Suite 1200 (12e étage)
Montréal, QC
H2W 2R2
Canada





Avec le Global Jam qui arrive à grand pas, l'équipe Ubuntu-Québec récidive et organise une fois de plus un événement à Montréal et invite ses membres (et tous les intéressés!) à se réunir pour trouver, rapporter et régler des bogues. L'événement se tiendra les Samedi et Dimanche, 3 et 4 septembre 2011, à partir de 9 heures.

Un gros merci va à komputes pour le travail d'organisation de l'événement.

De plus, on tient à remercier Canonical pour avoir accepté d'héberger l'événement!

Si vous êtes dans la région de Montréal, vous êtes donc invités à vous joindre aux membres d'Ubuntu-Qc et nous aider à rendre la version 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot, vraiment parfaite!

Pour nous permettre de savoir combien de personnes sont attendues, n'oubliez pas de signifier votre présence sur la page à cet effet sur le LoCo directory. Vous pouvez également obtenir plus d'information sur notre page wiki.

Voir ci-haut pour l'adresse ;)

Jamming in Montreal

I'll shamelessly copy Jorge's post here to present the Montreal jam:

We're doing some unity testing this weekend. We were about 11 at some point yesterday, and we're 7 this afternoon.

Sadly, we didn't happen to have our own Jason to answer user questions, so I did the best I could ;)

Global Jam in Montréal

So we're doing it again!

It's obviously getting a bit on the late side to announce this, but I only got the confirmation for our location this weekend -- after work or when I had a second, I wrote the Ubuntu-Quebec mailing list invitation, dented about the event, and created the LoCo directory entry for this event already.

So once again, people wanting to help improve Natty Narwhal or who would like to know more about bugs, triaging, fixing bugs, testing the new release or even writing documentation for applications, and living around Montreal, Qc, don't hesitate to come join us at SUPInfo Montréal this weekend. The closest subway station is McGill on the green line, then about 3 minutes walking time ;)

We're holding our sessions on *both* Saturday and Sunday, from 11am to 5pm on each day.

SUPInfo Montréal
752 Sherbrooke West
Montreal, Quebec



Agrandir le plan

Ubuntu Global Jam in Montreal: help testing and fixing bugs in Maverick

We're doing it again!

Here in Montreal we're just about ready to start jamming this weekend. Rooms have been confirmed, and we already have a fair amount of interest from what I can see in the LoCo directory event listing! We're also happy to have been sharing ideas and plans with txwikinger who's been organizing the Global Jam event in the Waterloo/Kitchener area in Ontario.

Do you want to help make Ubuntu better?
Do you look forward to meeting some of the people who do testing, triaging and bug fixing on Ubuntu in Montreal, and maybe ask them to look at your own little pet-peeve bugs?

Then come join us at the SupInfo Montréal offices this Saturday, starting from 9am! All you need to bring is a computer and willingness to participate. :)

	SupInfo Montréal
	752 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
	Montreal
	Canada
	http://www.supinfo.com/en/News0eaaf665-d9bf-4563-befb-ac97f8b035c2.aspx

If you choose to pass by, please let us know by registering for the event on the LoCo Directory... just so we know roughly how many people to expect.

You can get all of the information about our event on the QuebecTeam wiki: QuebecTeam/GlobalJam.

As a side note, we should have a local archive mirror, and copies of maverick and lucid ISO images. I've spent the past weeks preparing it on a portable USB hard drive, after getting some help in starting from Dustin Kirkland. Thanks Dustin!

In retrospect: the good and the bad about the Global Jam event in Montreal

Well, it's better late than never. The bad is obviously how it has taken me more than a week to get to writing this blog post about how well our Global Jam event went :)

Seriously though, I did notice there were slightly fewer people this time around, but this can be inputed to a number of variables, so I really have no reason to complain, we had a great time, found a great number of bugs that were reported (and/or triaged), and it's essentially a clear success. Thanks to all those who participated in making this a great event.

If you want to look at the pictures for our event, you can see them here. There was also a live video made by r2mxr, but I can't find the link to it anymore... I promise I will update about it soon.

Thanks to Fabian Rodriguez and David Bensimon who joined in and helped out a lot in finding bugs, testing, reproducing, and confirming bugs.

Thanks to Philippe Gauthier who did a terrific job at a number of things, including setting, at least in my eyes, the record for the quickest testing process ever. Wine with a Windows app, as well as other Linux applications installed in record time :)

Obviously, thanks to the presenters for a great time: Ronan Jouchet, Michael Faille, Jeff Fortin... You did great, and I learned a lot. I'm sure a lot of others did as well.

Thanks to the SUPInfo students for visiting, you boosted our numbers and gave us a new and different outlook on various issues, which was a clear benefit.

Thanks to ETS, and in particular to Oleg Litvinsky for doing an awesome job at the logistics. I've never seen a room get set up so fast, I felt useless :)

Finally, thanks to those who came in to join us to see presentations or help out with bugs, it was great to see you all and meet new people, or others who we discuss with on the mailing list but rarely have a chance to talk to, face-to-face.

News about the Global Jam in Montreal

I'm amazed by the amount of interest we're gathering here in Montreal for the Global Jam and the new version Ubuntu in general. I'm very eager to put in lots of work on triaging and helping people understand how to create packages or prepare patches to packages, but I've been contacted by a few people and thought it would be good to share on the awesome presentations and presenters we'll be able to see here this weekend:

• A presentation MythTV and video capture, by Marc-André Gingras
• Club Capra / a robotics project that was migrated from Windows to Ubuntu, and how that was done, by Michael Faille
• An overview of PiTiVi and video edition, by Jeff Fortin (surely along with a bug jam blitz on PiTiVi?)
• A presentation on UbuntuStudio, JACK, and Ardour; by Ronan Jouchet

To get all the juicy details, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuebecTeam/GlobalJam10.03

I seriously can't wait until Friday!